Suspected Suffolk hacker Lauri Love says he'd rather kill himself than face the US justice system

Lauri Love outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London, after British security services lost their legal fight to force the alleged cyber hacker to hand over the passwords to his encrypted computers in a landmark case. (Image: Lauren Hurley/PA Wire)

A hacking suspect who allegedly gained access to some of the US's most sensitive websites has said he would rather die than be extradited to the USA.

Lauri Love, 31, is currently appealing an extradition order to face trial for allegedly hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and Nasa.

Lauri Love (Image: Lauren Hurley/PA Wire)

Speaking to the BBC this week, Mr Love said: "If there are no other options and it is a choice between being subject to the US justice system and being turned into an example or deterrent or choosing to end my own life as an alternative then I do reserve the right to do so."

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He has previously said that he feared he would die in a US prison as it would be "very hard for me to imagine not being able to access information using computers".

Mr Love compared the loss of technology in his life to a condition that would limit his very existence, he said: "It would be like losing my sight if I was locked away from technology and only able to use a telephone to call my family once a week.

Lauri Love, who is accused of hacking into US Government computers (Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

"It is very hard for me to imagine not being able to access information using computers - that's the way I have interfaced with the world since I was able to."